What if the West’s biggest water problem is no longer “drought,” but systems that can’t truly recover—even when storms return? We look at this issue and more in the past week’s water news video embedded below:
This week’s Western Water Weekly breaks down a billion-dollar tribal water settlement in Arizona, new push-and-pull policy fights over conservation and agriculture, a warning of accelerating groundwater decline in New Mexico, four major water cases headed to the Colorado Supreme Court, and why snowpack—not rain—still decides who has water in summer. We close with the latest Drought Monitor and Utah’s winter outlook.